Jean, Thank you for approving my email - I did subscribe using the website and confirmed the email (and have logged into my account page successfully) prior to sending my email to the list. Maybe I was impatient and needed to wait a day for the account setup to completely process.
Thank you all for catching my silly typo - it frequently takes a second set of eyes to catch those types of errors. The reason I was using the ties inside the chord instead of on the chord as a whole is that, in the piece I am working on, there are frequently chords where not all notes are tied, so I was trying to be consistent in my coding pattern for all tied chords. I may rethink that decision. Thanks again. On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:13 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Welcome to this list. I had to approve your message manually > because you are not subscribed to the list yet. Please fix this > by subscribing on https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > On 31/01/2023 22:04, Steve Carlock wrote: > > New Lilypond user here. The following code is not working as I expect: > > > > \version "2.24.0" > > \language "english" > > > > \score { > > << > > \new Staff { > > \key d \major > > \time 4/4 > > \relative c' { > > <d~ a'~>1 | <d a'>1 | g~1 | g2 <fs a>2 | > > } > > } > > >> > > \layout { } > > } > > > > > > I expect to see 4 measures with ties between measures 1 and 2, and then > 3 and 4. Instead I am seeing 5 measures with an extra whole note in > measure 4 tied to measure 3. (Image attached). > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > The order of elements for a note is > > <pitch> <duration> <articulations> > > > In "g~1", you have > > <pitch> <articulation> <duration> > > Thus the "g~" part is understood as a g note that implicitly > inherits the duration of the previous note, with a tie, and > the "1" part is the duration of a new note, which inherits > the pitch of the previous note. You want "g1~" instead. > > By the way, you can simplify > > <d~ a'~>1 > > into > > <d a'>1~ > > Jean > >
